DevOps Engineer - conductorai

OpenTalent; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Washington state seeks an experienced DevOps engineer to design and deploy configurations of our application into secure environments, including air-gapped networks. You will help define and improve system architecture, build out CI/CD pipelines, and write Helm charts to support deployment.

You will tackle infrastructure challenges around deploying large models, advance accreditation efforts (FedRAMP, IL5/IL6), and collaborate with a tight-knit team to own complex problems

Qualifications

• 4+ years as an individual contributor DevOps engineer in high-stakes customer or company environment.
• Experience leading and collaborating with other engineers.
• On-site experience with senior customer stakeholders to outline infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application.
• Work with partners to deploy our software to classified customer environments, including going on-site as needed.
• Docker: Help write and improve the Dockerfiles of the various pieces of our system, to build efficient and hardened docker images with minimal CVEs.
• Kubernetes: Help write and improve our Helm charts that define our deployments into a variety of different Kubernetes clusters, including those backed by cloud infrastructure as well as on-prem.
• CI/CD: Help improve our Github actions CI/CD processes to make updates to our application and its dependencies as painless and robust as possible.
• System Accreditation: Help us make technical decisions to enable continued compliance with a variety of standards, such as FedRAMP.
• Strategy and Culture: As a core member of our team, contribute to company strategy, nurture and shape our growing culture, and take on diverse responsibilities as we evolve.

Skills

Communication skills

Independent

Ownership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Helm

CI/CD

Job description

INTRODUCTION

We value candidates who have significant experience with managing complexity, working independently, and are motivated by hard problems.

your role

through time as we grow

• Competitive salary and equity upside with annual merit refreshes based on impact

POSITION OVERVIEW

You'll help build and deploy different configurations of our application into a variety of environments, including numerous air-gapped classified networks. You'll contribute to defining and improving our system architecture, building out CI/CD pipelines, writing and improving Helm charts, and informing our deployment strategy.

You'll have an opportunity to shape how we ship code into highly sensitive environments, and to confront interesting infrastructure problems around deploying LLMs and other large models efficiently and robustly. You'll help drive our system's numerous accreditations, including FedRAMP, IL5, IL6, and beyond.

We are seeking an engineer with a generalist skillset and attitude, strong communication skills, and a willingness and ability to take ownership of hard problems. You’ll be working on a small tight knit technical team, with

the opportunity

to help define and mature our architecture and processes as we grow.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and maintain the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application
• Work with partners to deploy our software to classified customer environments, including going on-site as needed
• Docker: Help write and improve the Dockerfiles of the various pieces of our system, to build efficient and hardened docker images with minimal CVEs.
• Kubernetes: Help write and improve our Helm charts that define our deployments into a variety of different Kubernetes clusters, including those backed by cloud infrastructure as well as on-prem.
• CI/CD: Help improve our Github actions CI/CD processes to make updates to our application and its dependencies as painless and robust as possible.
• System Accreditation: Help us make technical decisions to enable continued compliance with a variety of standards, such as FedRAMP.
• Strategy and Culture: As a core member of our team, contribute to company strategy, nurture and shape our growing culture, and take on diverse

responsibilities

as we evolve.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years as an individual contributor DevOps engineer in high-stakes customer or company environment
• Experience leading and collaborating with other engineers
• On-site experience with senior customer stakeholders to outline infrastructure

requirements

and deploy software

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal